isaakiel / quantaar

R Package - Quantitative Analysis in Archaeology

quantAAR

quantAAR contains tidy wrappers and useful utility function for common applications of exploratory statistics in archaeology:

Wrapper functions:

• Correspondence Analysis: ca.ca_ca (ca::ca), ca.vegan_cca (vegan::cca)
• Principal Components Analysis: pca.stats_prcomp (stats::prcomp), pca.vegan_rda (vegan::rda)
• Seriation: seriation.seriation_seriate (seriation::seriate), seriation.tabula_seriate (tabula::seriate)
• Principal Curves: principal_curve.princurve_principal_curve (princurve::principal_curve)

Data preparation functions:

• itremove iteratively removes all rows and columns of a dataframe with less than a given number of non zero elements
• booleanize reduces the numeric values of a dataframe to boolean presence-absence indicators

Data:

• matuskovo + matuskovo_material: A dataset containing graves (objects) and grave attributes (variables) of a burial site from the Unetice culture in western Slovakia

Installation

quantAAR is currently not on CRAN, but you can use devtools to install the development version. To do so:

if(!require('devtools')) install.packages('devtools')
devtools::install_github('ISAAKiel/quantAAR')

Licence

quantAAR is released under the GNU General Public Licence, version 2. Comments and feedback are welcome, as are code contributions.